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About Maria Nirod
Countess Maria Nirod was a Russian maid of honour in the imperial court of Nicholas II and Alexandra of Russia. After her husband's death, she trained as a surgical nurse and assisted in the surgery of Dr. Vera Gedroits, who became her life partner. After serving as a nurse in World War I and during the Russian Revolution, she fled with her children to Kiev. She served as a surgical nurse in Kiev until Gedroits' death and later ran a pharmacy which provided medications to the poor.
Everything about Maria Nirod →- Occupation
- nurse
- Citizenship
- Russian Empire, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
- Born
- May 24, 1879
- Died
- October 11, 1965